FBI Nips $20,000 Air Extortion Plot Involving Plane And Radio
In the Barbeau extortion case, Tony Catalano and Louis De Pasquale planned to grab $20,000 from Alexis Barbeau Jr. by dropping a package from a Buffalo to Erie train while a light aircraft trailed. FBI agents using radio coordination captured the pair near Dunkirk after a staged payoff, with soil analysis tying suspects to the scene. Catalano received five years, De Pasquale twelve.
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Department of Commerce
Dunkirk
Accused plotter Calo jailed after note forgeries traced
Investigators questioned Catalano and DePasquale repeatedly until Carlo Calo, an acquaintance, confessed he wrote the first three extortion notes and then fled. Calo, arrested in Buffalo, received a year and 10 months after FBI lab showed stationery matched the notes. The count played for big stakes but the count was counted out.
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United Feature Syn
Charm Lessons For Employes
Milwaukee city workers will attend a four week charm school course in the civil service assembly. The class meets twice weekly and is limited to 16 members. Each new class is addressed by the mayor and a citizen suggestion box is in the city hall lobby.
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Chicago
Public Administration Clearing House
Milwaukee
Civil Service Assembly
Victor Fleming Dies Veteran Director of Gone With the Wind
Victor Fleming aged 60 died of a heart attack at Beaver Creek Guest Ranch while vacationing with family. The famed director of Gone With the Wind and Joan of Arc had recently worked on his last film amid a long career helming Robin Hood The Virginian and Treasure Island.
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Cottonwood Hospital
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Fleming
Dalhart High Names McDaniel Vocational Agriculture Head
Frank C. McDaniel was appointed head of Dalhart high school's vocational agriculture department, directing program development and classroom instruction.
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Frank C. McDaniel
Dalhart High School Vocational Agriculture Department
Scientists unveil oil that flows at sixty degrees below zero
Technologists say a new motor oil remains fluid at temperatures as low as 60 degrees below zero and preserves film strength heat resistance cling penetration and carbon removal.
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Los Angeles
Fortified Compound Protects Against Oxidation and Foaming
A description notes a formulation that resists oxidation and foaming while also preventing varnish formation. The brief emphasizes durability and stability under use conditions.
Weems Takes Over Son's Sally Ann Bakery in Plainview
T. G. Weems formerly of Amarillo has assumed operation of Son's Sally Ann Bakery located in Plainview, signaling a new local management era for the family bake shop.
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T. G. Weems
Amarillo
Son
Plainview
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